Youth Language Practices in Africa and Beyond / / ed. by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2015 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Beck, Rose Marie,; Beyer, Klaus,; Hollington, Andrea,; Hurst, Ellen,; Kioko, Eric M.,; Landi, Germain,; Makwabarara, Tafadzwa,; Mugaddam, Abdelrahim Hamid,; Namyalo, Saudah,; Nassenstein, Nico,; Pasch, Helma,; Schrenk, Havenol M.,; Vierke, Clarissa,; Wilson, Catherina,
• HerausgeberIn: Hollington, Andrea,; Nassenstein, Nico,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 105
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (366 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Table of contents --; List of tables, maps and figures --; 1. Youth language practices in Africa as creative manifestations of fluid repertoires and markers of speakers’ social identity --; 2. Youth language practices in Africa: achievements and challenges --; 3. Sheng: an urban variety of Swahili in Kenya --; 4. The emergence of Langila in Kinshasa (DR Congo) --; 5. Identity construction and linguistic manipulation in Randuk --; 6. Regional varieties and “ethnic” registers of Sheng --; 7. Yarada K’wank’wa and urban youth identity in Addis Ababa --; 8. Overview of the tsotsitaals of South Africa; their different base languages and common core lexical items --; 9. Imvugo y’Umuhanda1 – youth language practices in Kigali (Rwanda) --; 10. Sango Godobé: the urban youth language of Bangui (CAR) --; 11. Some remarks on poetic aspects of Sheng --; 12. Youth language practices in Zimbabwe --; 13. The positive-negative phenomenon and phono-semantic matching in Rasta Talk --; 14. Kindoubil: urban youth languages in Kisangani --; 15. Linguistic strategies in Luyaaye: word play and conscious language manipulation --; 16. Conclusion and outlook: taking new directions in the study of youth language practices --; Language index --; Author index --; Subject index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781614518525; 9783110762518; 9783110700985; 9783110742961; 9783110439687; 9783110438710
• ISSN: 1861-0676
• DOI: 10.1515/9781614518525
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Nico Nassenstein, Andrea Hollington.

Youth languages have increasingly attracted the attention of scholars and students of various disciplines. African youth languages are a vibrant phenomenon with manifold characteristics involving a range of different languages. This book is a first comprehensive study of African youth languages and presents fresh insights into various youth languages, providing linguistic as well as sociolinguistic data and analyses.